Why Kashmiris migrated into Punjab
"Heavy commodifications taxation under the Sikh rule caused many Kashmiri peasants to migrate to the plains of Punjab.
[5][6] These claims, made in Kashmiri histories, were corroborated by European travelers.
[5] When one such European traveller, Moorcroft, left the Valley in 1823, about 500 emigrants accompanied him across the Pir Panjal Pass.
[7] The 1833 famine resulted in many people leaving the Kashmir Valley and migrating to the Punjab, with the majority of weavers leaving Kashmir. Weavers settled down for generations in the cities of Punjab such as
Jammu and Nurpur.
[8] The 1833 famine led to a large influx of Kashmiris into Amritsar.[
citation needed] Kashmir's Muslims in particular suffered and had to leave Kashmir in large numbers, while Hindus were not much affected."
A large number of Muslim Kashmiris migrated from the Kashmir Valley
[11] to the Punjab due to conditions in the princely state
[11] such as famine, extreme poverty
[12] and harsh treatment of Kashmiri Muslims by the Dogra Hindu regime.
[13] According to the 1911 Census there were 177,549
Kashmiri Muslims in the Punjab. With the inclusion of Kashmiri settlements in NWFP this figure rose to 206,180. "
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Half my family is from Indian Punjab, parts of Haryana and we know what happened- and the vast majority of people in my surroundings have similar stories as a lot of Pakistan was directly affected by extreme violence more than any other modern-day persecution seeking Hindutava ever was
Muslim Punjabi migration from Indian Punjab
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he attacks, financed by Hindu tycoons and Sikh Maharajas, were so well planned/organized that many in Pakistan (and even in India) declared them "The Sikh Plan" and claimed that great Sikh conspiracy laid behind the attacks. Quite suspiciously, Sikh leaders had ordered their followers to evacuate en masse the canal lands of West Punjab (Faisalabad and Sahiwal especially) even though there were no attacks on them by Muslim mobs.
Even the Indian PM Nehru himself admitted that the Sikhs were the aggressors. He said he believed that some Sikh leaders were hoping to provoke a war between India and Pakistan, so they could launch an invasion to recapture the western half of the Punjab.
For details, read "Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition" by Nisid Hajari.
“The Sikhs were the aggressors,” Nehru declared without hesitation in an August 22 letter to Mahatma Gandhi, estimating that twice as many Muslims had been killed in East Punjab to that point as Hindus and Sikhs in the West. When he wrote to Gandhi again three days later, Nehru said he believed that some Sikh leaders were hoping to provoke a war between India and Pakistan, so they could launch an invasion to recapture the western half of the Punjab."
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47 was not representative of our region or history - and after Bengal, we were the only Muslim majority region unlike other regions where riots were more frequent
but the trauma/ PTSD of 47 did change our thinking 360 degrees, I can agree with that-...
My point of posting this is cause a lot of people have one-sided views where
just Muslim people are ultimate boogeymen which is unfair
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